The petitioner is a private limited company. One of its activities is to acquire properties and to develop them for real estate purposes. It purchased about 45 acres of land in various sub-divisions of Sy.No.103 of Shamshabad Village and Mandal, Ranga Reddy District, through different sale deeds at various points of time from the respective owners. The petitioner approached the Sub-Registrar, Ranga Reddy District-2nd respondent herein with a request to furnish information as to the stamp duty, registration charges etc., for respective extents of lands proposed to be purchased by it. The 2nd respondent, however, refused to furnish particulars on the ground that as per the information received by him from the Tahsildar, Shamshabad Mandal, the land is ‘assigned’ in character and that has been since resumed to the Government. Obviously, he was trying to enforce the prohibition contained under Section 22-A of the Registration Act, 1908 (for short “the Act”) as amended by Act No.19 of 2007.

The petitioner contends that its vendors were granted Laoni pattas in respect of different extents of land on payment of consideration determined by the revenue authorities way back in the